You may have run into headlines or random forum posts this morning claiming that the "New Firefox gives all your browsing history to Google". Many seem to quickly say that it steals all your website information and sells for fun and profit ... but don't even get into what is really happening.

Love the series or hate it, you will be seeing a lot of press about the final installment of the game that made the Xbox what it is today. Halo 3 is out, though you may have trouble finding it on the shelves, as Microsoft's hype machine worked perfectly again, and people lined up for hours to get the game at it's midnight release. Ars Technica can give you a look at what this new sequel offers to dedicated Halo fans, without giving away the plot or any secrets while they ar

It looks like the new Excel 2007 has some problems (apart from it's ribbon fetish). It looks like the number 65,535 causes some interesting behaviour, and it's maths skills take a turn for the bizarre. Excel has had a history of troubles around that spot, including it's belief that no spreadsheet should ever have more than 65,536 rows. Read more examples of this issue by following the link on Slashdot.

The G15 from Logitech is a gaming keyboard with a lot of multipurpose buttons and even a display. Instead of trimming down the features like Ideazon and others, Logitech opted to add features to a full sized keyboard. From the blue LED, to disabling the Windows key while gaming, there is a lot of nice touches. The most powerful feature is it's ability to record macros on the fly and program the LCD screen to display a wide variety of information. Read on at motherboards.org to see this ke

When first taking the plunge into Linux, the sheer amount of distros available can be overwhelming. Instead of backing off and postponing the leap again, check out PC Mechanic. The author picked a distro after trying out several, and you can learn from his steps ... if you are looking for the same things in Linux that he was.

The final game will support both DX10 and DX9, but this demo is a demonstration of what the final game will look like in DirectX 10. The demo features all the visual effects and some of the highly detailed models that will be available in the game.

The main DX10 graphics features of PT boats: Knights of the Sea tech demo-benchmark: